Minex Resources, Inc. v. Morland

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

Robert Morland, as special administrator of the Estate of Kathleen O’Connell [the Estate], appealed from a judgment ordering the Estate to indemnify Minex Resources, Inc. [Minex] for operating expenses on an oil and gas well. Patrick Petroleum Corporation of Michigan [Patrick] appealed from a judgment ordering it to indemnify the Estate for the expenses owed to Minex, and ordering it to indemnify Petrotech, Inc., for attorney’s fees and costs incurred in this litigation. We affirm.

On August 7, 1978, Kathleen O’Connell leased her mineral interests in two sections of…